"What? No! How can we be a monopoly? We just barely won a bidding war for this company!"

Found the pictures. Why I ever decided to pose right under that terrible lighting I'll never know.

Fun little story about Alex's design: I specifically wanted his poncho to have an over-the-shoulder, shawl kind of look, but wasn't able to phrase it well when describing it to Stephan. So, I grabbed a blanket, wrapped it around my neck, and took a picture to give reference material.

Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes has a demo out and *w o w* does it get the "oh gods we need to jump RIGHT NOW" feeling from the show *just* right. If you like FTL or Crying Suns I think the demo is worth a try.

Never forget: if all else fails, you can always love yourself on Valentine's Day. ...I guess keep that in mind for next year because it's the 15th now.

Man, the chicken from Family Guy got JACKED.

The "Last March of the Ents" wasn't all it was cracked up to be.

TONIGHT... #sailormoon #abridged #fullmoon

Fallout S2 feelings in a nutshell:

Caught one of the last shows of Twenty-Sided Tavern's tour! Great time all round! Glad Dallas was one of the stops!

#criticalrolespoilers The Soldiers table was a bunch of great characters on a straightforward revenge quest, but *damn* the Seekers table just gets that extra level of OOMPH that comes with having the survivors of the Tachonis attack processing their trauma. Lady Aranessa is also a great GMPC.

#criticalrolespoilers Oh lordy, I don't need this father-son bonding flashback right now. Lord Davinos, you were done dirty and some people gotta burn in your name.

And it *still* looks like ass. No cut can last longer than 3 seconds because the thing probably falls apart the moment it has to do more than you could fit in a sentence-long prompt. It's the goddamn holiday coke commercial all over again.

I took off my coat and the end of the sleeve hooked the straw if my drink, immediately knocking it off my desk and soaking my desk chair and the surrounding carpet... ...the world must now burn.

Getting this at my age makes me think the score isn't going to go much higher. 😅 Lets do something risqué, then go have dinner with your parents. I made reservations! 😈😇

Woof. First time since 2021 that the roads outside my neighborhood were still iced over *days* after the sleet/rain stopped coming down.

I'm getting nostalgic for Dune... "Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It's shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult."

...is this because I wore shorts on Christmas?

"Whenever Battle Beast's not on screen, all the other characters should be asking 'Where's Battle Beast?'" youtu.be/ZnfUeVeMKjY?...

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with Big Naturals

So, you're a lawyer? Hard to argue with that.

when you become too important at your job #AGDQ2026

While I can't say I "know" Swen better than anyone else that's casually followed Larian since D:OS 2, it's disheartening to see the same guy who gave that speech at the game awards in 2023 not get the full picture on GenAI after already burning his hand on that stove just a few weeks ago.

Neat.

The oft-forgotten benefits of J cuts.

Recently discovered my phone could take passable pics of the moon. Makes me wish I figured this out when an eclipse passed over my house.

I will probably bring back some items from my time on the *other* platform, for the sake of posterity. One chestnut in particular I feel like refreshing:

Happy new year, one and all! Finally decided it was better to migrate than vanish into the digital ether.